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  • Nneya smiling in front of Grand Hotel Tremezzo baroque palace

    Perfect Stay – Grand Hotel Tremezzo

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    A Perfect Luxury Stay in the Grand Hotel Lake Como

    November 1, 2020
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    How To: Flying to Europe from the USA During the Covid

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    Until July I hadn’t left my neighborhood in Brooklyn and less than 2 square miles around it. Since understanding the severity of the Covid pandemic, I was afraid to fly, seeing airplanes as petri-dishes. I flew direct from Milan’s Malpensa airport to NYC’s JFK on March 2nd and soon became unsure of when I would see my partner, Michele, as both of our nations...

    August 16, 2020
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    On Being Black In the Travel Industry for Condé Nast Traveler

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    New article I wrote for Condé Nast Traveler

    June 23, 2020
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    On Being a Black Expat in China

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    I reached out to my friend, Imani Bashir, who recently moved her family from Wuhan, China. Imani and I discuss her time in Wuhan at the outbreak Covid-19 and her experiences in China as a black expat and an American expat.

    May 13, 2020
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    #WCW – The Palenqueras of Cartagena

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    Discover the history of black Colombia through the palenqueras of Cartagena de Indias from origins to present day.

    May 7, 2020
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  • Love in the Time of Corona

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    Living between New York City and Lombardia, Italy I'm caught in a long distance relationship as my partner and I quarantine in separate countries. Check out my latest video to see how we're making it work.

    March 24, 2020
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  • Rack Story / Back Story: Stella Jean in the Chitral Valleys of Pakistan

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    Multiculturalism applied to ethical fashion.

    February 25, 2020
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  • Perfect Guide to Verona

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    My relentless pursuit of “off the beaten path” sometimes has me miss out on the most obvious of locations. And the fun discovery of truly making them my own. For example, Puglia is having an international moment right now. I first went there and fell in love with the region about 10 years ago. Luckily, my partner’s pride in both his culture and my...

    January 28, 2020
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  • Starting A New Decade: Hope for the Future from South Africa’s Past

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    Happy New Year! This past month has been a whirlwind. After leaving Italy, I came back to NYC and enjoyed a few days at home before heading to the west coast of Mexico, Zihuatanejo, for 3 days, hoping on a flight back to NYC for an event and an early AM flight to Detroit with Glam4Good. After a relaxing holiday break with my family,...

    January 9, 2020
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  • Holiday Dressing in Italy

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    I love this time of year. New York to London to Milan, I love the magic lights that dazzle the streets around Christmas time. Sparkly jumpsuits, sequined skirts, I must say, my holiday looks are open put together to rival the string lights. This is the time of year where you can unabashedly shine!

    December 9, 2019
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November 12, 2020

Hi, I’m a Bravo Addict. Let’s Talk Real Housewives of Salt Lake City

The RHOSLC premiered last night. Confession! I’m a Bravo-addict. You might know that if you follow me on Twitter...

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Belle Époque style dress walking to front of the hotel and greenery
November 12, 2020

Belle Époque Inspired Italian Holiday Style

Here's what to pack for a luxurious vacation on Lake Como.

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Nneya smiling in front of Grand Hotel Tremezzo baroque palace
November 1, 2020

Perfect Stay – Grand Hotel Tremezzo

A Perfect Luxury Stay in the Grand Hotel Lake Como

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September 7, 2020

New Feature in Buzzfeed!

New feature in a round up of travel bloggers on Buzzfeed

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Perfect Guide to Verona

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My relentless pursuit of “off the beaten path” sometimes has me miss out on the most obvious of locations. And the fun discovery of truly making them my own....

January 28, 2020
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Perfect Stay – the Biltmore Hotel (& New Video!)

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The Biltmore has had several lives -- so much Miami, Coral Gables and American history is in this building -- and I have a feeling we’re there for the...

September 17, 2019
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Kasbah du Toubkal & Imlil Valley Video

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New video of our stay in the High Atlas Mountains in the Imlil Valley at Kasbah du Toubkal

July 31, 2019
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Perfect Stay: Kasbah du Toubkal & The Imlil Valley Photo Diary

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It might not be what you expect, but it’s in these mountains that you can discover the heart, the origins of Moroccan culture.

July 28, 2019
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On CBS This Morning Discussing Women’s Travel Safety – My Tips for YOU!

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A continuation of my conversation during my appearance on CBS This Morning, here are my tips for traveling as a woman, solo.

July 23, 2019
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10 Places to Travel As An Interracial Couple (without being oogled)

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In our video on Traveling As An Interracial couple in honor of Loving Day, Michele and I mainly discuss our experiences and social commentary as a whole, mentioning very...

June 18, 2019
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A big cheers to all of us this holiday season. It' A big cheers to all of us this holiday season. It's definitely different, not what we expected, but let's make memories nonetheless. My tips for a good time: great cocktails and glam wardrobe! Drink of choice during my fam's slimmed down Thanksgiving this year? @cutwaterspirits #tequilamargarita. That tangy lime and good tequila (heavy on the tequila) ratio reminds me of friendsgiving at my best friend's house and our bottomless margaritas. I even got my mom to drink tequila with #cutwaterspirits, guys! #ad #SetYourCocktailFree #thanksgiving #friendsgiving2020
AMERICANS ARE GOING OUT FOR THAI! 🇹🇭 Accordi AMERICANS ARE GOING OUT FOR THAI! 🇹🇭 According to data from Zenreach, Thai restaurants are outperforming in an industry struggling during the pandemic. While other restaurants are overall operating at 35% their 2019 levels, Thai restaurants are at 45-50%. Before my uncle passed, we were ordering Thai regularly. While I’m not hopping on a plane to Thailand right now, I’ll look for my piece of Thailand in Brooklyn. I especially love when a restaurant has Northern Thai dishes and found the ones that do taste a bit closer to home. 😉 @scaglione_michele and I practically ate our way through the country when we went. The cilantro, lime, lemongrass. Thai cuisine is definitely my favorite in the world. Here we are @gingerfarmchiangmai and a street market in #ChiangMai ARE YOU ORDERING IN MORE? WHAT’S BEEN YOUR / YOUR FAMILY’S GO-TO? #thaifood #thailand #armchairtravel #travelforfood #blacktravelfeed
Happy Monday! I’ve been MIA a bit this past week Happy Monday! I’ve been MIA a bit this past week, swamped with work and family stuff. I had such an incredible weekend with my cousin that relaxed and reset me that I can’t wait to tell you guys about. It’s her birthday so we celebrated, safely, as she’s a nurse and after not seeing her since LAST Christmas, I didn’t realize how much I needed this! @hownottotravellikeabasicbitch is constantly saying this. Here’s to checking in with yourself and thank you to @mondrianparkavenue for making us feel safe and comfortable and reminding me that NYC isn’t dead. We’re in this together. #naperfectworld #nysnewyork #motivationmonday #nycskyline #ilovenewyork
SHAMELESS ON VACATION The sun, the lake, the riva SHAMELESS ON VACATION The sun, the lake, the riva... everything perfect about the end of this summer. And I felt at ease. Not just because at the time the pandemic was down in #Italy (for example Sardegna was NOT relaxing), not even because of the health and safety precautions taken by #GrandHotelTremezzo (there were a lot). But because of the other guests. They weren’t coming from places where masks were politicized, and the few, like me, were on the right side of the argument. Working in tourism, I understand the need to sustain these businesses and applaud places that put the safety of the local communities first. After reading @nymag ‘Shameless on Vacation’ I was livid. There was a girl at the end that personified that stereotypical American brazenness and selfishness. She caught it in Tulum, came back to NYC, gave it to a friend and now that she was better, planned to head down to Miami. You can only do so much when you travel to keep your pod of likeminded people small. I get pretty anxious when I think about going most places that have been open without restrictions. I lost two people in my family. I can’t afford to spread it to another member. So while I encourage you to travel, I want you to save a plan a bang out trip when it’s safe for all of us to do it well. Those US numbers are no joke. But, the airlines are expecting a flux in customers for holiday travelers. What are you doing and how are you keeping safe? #naperfectworld #blacktravelfeed #lakecomo #nydolcevita #americaninitaly #grigne
Guys, I want to build a greenhouse. I’ve been wa Guys, I want to build a greenhouse. I’ve been watching a lot of British murder mysteries and I want to be an old lady knowingly tottering around in a greenhouse. Here’s to hoping we all flourish like hanging golden pathos’ this week! Sun and a little tlc. @theprescodsisters have a holiday floral partnership coming up so I’m definitely following that! How are you sprucing up around the house plant wise for the holiday season? 📍 @bohemlastazione a cute florist and café in #Sarnico on Lake Iseo. In a converted railway station! Love sharing with you some of the local gems @scaglione_michele shares with me. #naperfectworld #nydolcevita #lakelife #lagodiiseo #blacktravelfeed #americaninitaly #mondaymotivation
We don’t often match but when we do... 🔥 whil We don’t often match but when we do... 🔥 while sure, a sunny day on #LakeComo is nice, I love the drama of the cloud covered Grigne mountains in this photo. My full photo diary of my Perfect Stay at #GrandHotelTremezzo is up on my blog now! Link in bio. It was like a fun Wes Anderson dream as the hotel is a Grand Hotel from the Belle Époque era. The point and ask buffet (i showed in an earlier post) felt like the royal family pull out all of the stops to host you. And it’s still family owned! While hoping GHTremezzo will be back to normal next season, it was special to enjoy a quieter moment there. I loved all of your suggestions for rainy magical places to visit! Do you normally have breakfast at the hotel or venture off for local eats? #lakecomo #naperfectworld #americaninitaly @ghtlakecomo #hotellife #luxuryloungewear #nydolcevita #dolcevita
This past week was so rainy in New York. And I’v This past week was so rainy in New York. And I’ve been feeling blah. Woke up today, saw the sun and was like “I think I’ll go for a walk outside now! The summer sun’s calling my name!” I’m so bad at treating my hometown of NYC with the same marvel i treat other places so I have to get better at that. Like this morning, in #LakeComo @ghtlakecomo when the rain made it look mysterious and magical to me. My first time visiting Venice was when I studied abroad. It was pouring and @kate.elsharkawy and i thought it was romantic! Paris in the rain *chef’s kiss* But New York, I treat like London and complain.... ill get better. DO YOU FIND ANY PLACE MAGICAL WHEN IT’S GRAY AND RAINY? #naperfectworld #tremezzo #americaninitaly #nydolcevita #blackgirlmagic #tlpicks #como
NEW WORK! 🇮🇹 A beautiful moment on the most NEW WORK! 🇮🇹 A beautiful moment on the most beautiful street in #Rome. #ViaGiulia The skies cleared for our shoot and I caught a moment of @stellajean_sj_ walking to the location. I can’t wait to show you guys the PRINT PACKAGE for @travelandleisure that I produced, wrote and styled showing some Italian #BlackExcellence. I set out to dispel some of your ideas about the typical Italian and show how multicultural the country could be. Hell, if it were up to me, I’d have a whole issue of @travelandleisure! Thank you for allowing me to show this #ItalianStory in your 2021 #DestinationoftheYear issue! Story on line now and in newsstands next week. But as it’s online... here’s a sneak peak! #roma #afroitalian #stellajean #dolcevita #nydolcevita
Cruising into Real Housewives of Salt Lake City li Cruising into Real Housewives of Salt Lake City like... My passion for #Housewives is like my travel curiosity. Where are we going to go next? I’ve searched for clips on The Real Housewives of Johannesburg in anticipation of a trip to South Africa and practice my Italian with the Real Housewives of Napoli. It’s always controversial whether or not a community feels their Housewives franchise represent them, but to me, their often a travel guide to the cities they’re in! The cast trips often give me travel inspiration or planning tips for my own. For example, the Real Housewives of Potamac are in Portugal right now — technically. I loooove Portugal. I had my 30th birthday there, had a wonderful time in both Lisbon and Porto. Joined my partner on his boy’s surfing trip in Lisbon a year or so later. The Potomac girls were on Madeira Island. I am actually very surprised they haven’t mentioned how close they are to Africa. Did you know Portugal also had a lot of colonies in Africa? Did you know in the early aughts that oil rich Angola had to bail out its debt ridden former colonizer? Madeira is an island that’s maybe equidistant from Morocco and Portugal, maybe a little closer to Morrocco, but not as close as the Canary Islands. These are the fun hot tips I hope to give you every week. This week, on my blog is a quick intro to my thoughts on Salt Lake City and is NYC a melting pot or a separated lunch tray. Is Salt Lake City this diverse? This is what we’ve been asking for from @bravotv all along: an effortlessly diverse cast. #RHOSLC is the snowy franchise I didn’t know I needed! I’ve been following @therealjenshah for the last few months and she’s my kind of extra. Did you watch the premiere? What did you think? Link in the bio! #bravotv #realhousewivesofslc #rhop #blackgirlsski
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The Politics of Our Black Hair

As black people much maligned for our hair, even this crown is political.

June 10, 2020
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Perfect Recipe: Jamaican SorrelAt my Uncle’s funeral in May, in addition to talking about his kindness and...July 15, 2020

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On Being Black In the Travel Industry for Condé Nast Traveler

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New article I wrote for Condé Nast Traveler

June 23, 2020
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Belle Époque Inspired Italian Holiday Style

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Here's what to pack for a luxurious vacation on Lake Como.

November 12, 2020
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